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Thematic Focus: Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation
Copenhagen and Beyond
Once a bit player in climate change negotiations, agriculture now plays a role more in line with its significance in the run up to Copenhagen. |
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Research Highlights
Trees Grow into the Job
As trees in tropical forests grow bigger, they absorb more carbon than previously thought, heightening their role in mitigating climate change. |
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Credit Where It's Due
Including agriculture in the market for carbon offset credits is key to ensuring Africa a fair deal regarding incentives to mitigate climate change. |
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Coastal Resilience
By conserving and restoring mangrove forests, Solomon Islanders diversify their livelihoods while addressing climate change. |
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Whither Wheat
As climate change makes tropical wheat environments less favorable, new varieties and conservation agriculture will help wheat beat the heat. |
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Shadow of a Drought
A drought-screening facility for transgenic plants promises further gains as drought-tolerant rice varieties begin to emerge. |
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Capitalizing on Cassava
As the global climate changes and the going gets tough for other staple crops, tough but neglected cassava may finally get going. |
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Animal Attraction
A report predicts that many African farmers will shift from crops to hardier livestock as temperatures rise and rainfall patterns shift under climate change. |
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Irrigation Revisited
Asia urgently needs to learn how to use water more wisely to feed the additional 1.5 billion people who will live there by 2050, warns a new report. |
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Water Works
A project in Africa and South Asia identifies promising agricultural water management solutions to unlock the potential of smallholder farming. |
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Off the Margin
Women recruited to bioreclaim degraded lands restore farmland previously considered useless and assert their right to own and cultivate it. |
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Dry Response
Agricultural research in the dry areas of Asia and North Africa considers the many ramifications of climate change in these vulnerable regions. |
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Women Move In but Not Up
A groundbreaking survey finds more women in agricultural research and higher education in sub-Saharan Africa, but not across the continent or at the highest levels. |
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Where the Plus Comes From
Cooperation from Brazil pays off for HarvestPlus in poor Brazilian farm communities, across Latin America and around the world. |
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Yam Breakthrough
Using vine cuttings to propogate yam spares tubers for consumption or sale, limits nematode infestation, and speeds the dissemination of improved varieties. |
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